This week's topic was freedom, as examined through Dr. Sabha Mahmood's article on feminist theory and docility in Cultural Anthropology, and David Foster Wallace's 2005 Commencement speech to Kenyon College. Prompt: Is freedom for women necessarily resistance? What is a docile agent? Should we try to recognize cultural differences in the definition of freedom? How does Wallace’s speech relate our culturally embedded ideas of freedom (or the lack thereof)? | |
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